Public Hearing on Dept. of Health Rulemaking

If the present trend of takeovers of secular hospitals and clinics around Washington State by Catholic-owned healtcare organizations continues, up to 40% of health care providers will be subject to religious directives reflecting dogma that:

Opens the door for employment discrimination against LGBT healthcare staff;

Ignores the legal status of legally married same-sex couples in medical decision-making for their spouse.

Forces LGBT people in rural areas to drive across county lines to find healthcare that respects their human dignity and legal rights.

Sign up below to let us know you plan to attend this public hearing. Let the Department of Health know that hospital mergers would create health outcome disparities for the LGBT community. Let them know that you oppose the expansion of entire regions in Washington State where religiously owned and operated hospitals and outpatient clinics can deny appropriate care and dignity to members of the LGBT community.

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